Follow the French Historic Grand Prix live on video

The fourth edition of the Historic French Grand Prix takes place on Saturday June 18 and Sunday June 19 on the Paul-Ricard circuit (Var). The event organized by the HVM Racing teams can be followed live video from 10:45 a.m. this Saturday with the first races of the six registered fields.

The festivities will begin with the Formula Ford 1600. No less than 46 single-seaters are expected on this grid which celebrates the history of a school category more than half a century old! Spectators of the Historic French Grand Prix will particularly find in action Formula Fords built between 1967 and 1992 by countless artisanal manufacturers. Cars with extremely varied origins and shapes, whose chassis accommodate the same Ford Kent 1600 engine. Alongside the numerous drivers accustomed to attending historic Formula Ford races, two renowned drivers will take advantage of the opportunity to reconnect with the atmosphere of their beginnings. Eric Hélary and Soheil Ayari, respectively crowned French Formula Ford champions in 1988 and 1994, will dare this great leap into the past by lining up at the start!

Place from 11:25 a.m. at the Formula 2. The only series dedicated to the old single-seaters of this discipline, the International Historic F2 celebrates the memory of the European championship in which so many great champions animated the races from 1967 to 1978 (the period particularly chosen for this tribute) before joining the premier category. The provisional entry list brings together around twenty of these single-seaters, with 1600 or 2 liter engines, which were designed at the time in the workshops of March, Chevron, Brabham or Ralt. Generally presented in their original livery, many of these F2s will evolve in expert hands, such as those of the German Wolfgang Kaufmann or the many Englishmen in the running. France will also be well represented on this international field with the multiple champion of the category Robert Simac, but also Fabrice Lheritier, Pascal Gerbout, Laurent Vallery-Masson, Michel Arbeit and Jean-Pierre Eynard-Machet.

Live French Historic Grand Prix from 10:45 a.m.:

Live coverage of the Historic French Grand Prix will resume at 14 p.m. for the most spectacular races of the day. Often considered the most impressive field in the Historic Tour due to the level of its drivers, the F3 and F. Renault Classic will undoubtedly offer a great battle. In reference to the time when the best hopes of F3 could be expressed in raising the curtain of the F1, the French Historic GP brings this happy neighborhood back into focus. The field brings together F3s from the 70s and those that succeeded them until 1984. And, again, as in F1 and F2, big names still appear on the cockpits of some of them! The first places look set to be particularly contested between drivers like the Monegasque Fred Lajoux, the Italians Davide and Valerio Leone, the Swiss Alain Girardet, the English Ian Jacobs and Simon Jackson or the French Fred Rouvier and Eric Martin. This field, with 33 single-seaters, also highlights Formula Renault, with cars dating from the 80s to the beginning of the following decade. Lionel Robert will be the most prominent driver.

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The highlight of the show will be the Boss GP at 15:30 p.m. Behind this curious name hide the Formula 1 cars of the 1990s and 2000s. There we will find two Jaguars from the beginning of the XNUMXst century but also several Toro Rosso from the mid-2000s. With the presence of the Boss GP series, dedicated to F1 and other high-level single-seaters, the Castellet public will be able to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the Grand Prix of the 2000s and vibrate to the inimitable sound of some V10s of the time. On a starting grid of nearly thirty cars, there are three Toro Rosso F1s from 2006/2008, two Jaguar F1s (2001/2004) and a Benetton F1 ex-Jean Alesi from 1997. More A dozen Dallara GP2 V8s will be alongside them, but also single-seaters from other former major championships, such as the World Series or Auto GP. Their lucky pilots will represent around ten different nationalities!

Let's go back a few decades with Historic F1 at 16:10 p.m. This is a grid specifically created for the occasion by HVM Racing in collaboration with the British club HSCC. It will offer spectators a privileged meeting with the “legends of the seventies”, more specifically the F1 cars of the 70s or the beginning of the following decade. To the sound of the 8-liter Cosworth V3s, we expect to admire around fifteen of these single-seaters on the track, in particular one McLaren M26 ex Hunt from 1976 in the hands of the British Michael Lyons, a Williams ex Jones from 1978, a Ligier JS21 ex Jarier from 1983 driven by Soheil Ayari, but also a Matra MS120B ex Beltoise from 1971 and March, BRM and Ensign.

The day will end with the 100 km of the Historic French Grand Prix at 16:50 p.m. In addition to the various single-seater fields, this edition of the French Historic GP also offers insight into the world of GT and Sports-Protos. Under the title of “100 km of the GPFH”, two 45-minute races will bring together the two categories of cars. Various GTs from before 1998 will mix on the track with Protos necessarily designed before 1995 to constitute a panel of around twenty cars. A cocktail full of flavor that the drivers (including freestyle biker Tom Pagès!) will have the opportunity to enjoy as a crew thanks to the obligatory stop imposed during the event.

Live French Historic Grand Prix from 14 p.m.:

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